Ask YC: Server Administration?

Post by xirium » Tue, Jun 03, 2008, 2:29 AM UTC

gtani wrote: post #13

in the olden days, people would buy Frisch's oreilly book, or the nemeth /snyder/hein linux admin books. Still good picks, but a lot to work through. You probably want tutorials/recipes based on your deploy platform: PHP, rails, django each have a bunch. Ezra Z's rails deployment book is outstanding. And a bunch of threads have gone over the Freebsd/OpenBSD, non-BSD choices, look in searchyc.com http://news.ycombinat…

Post by mjwest10 » Sun, Sep 14, 2008, 11:13 PM UTC

gexla wrote: post #15

alaskamiller wrote: post #6

Why Slicehost sucks and you should use Linode: 1. Slicehost makes you prepay 3 months to get started. Linode charges month to month with discounts if you prepay. 2. Slicehost does not prorate if you decide you don't like the service. Ie. Try it for 1 week and the rest of those three weeks are lost. Linode prorates on a daily basis, whatever you don't use they give you the money back. 3. Slicehost customer service is…

Points 1 and 2 are outdated. Point 3 is not a fact. Where does Slicehost policy say that they will only respond to email after 10 hours? Just because it happened to you does not say it happens every time. Just simply say their customer service is not as good. Point 4 is not helpful because there are many more variables to take into consideration when pricing a VPS. And anyways, Slicehost has an option for 4 GB of RAM…